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Treaty of Paris
This declared the end of the French and Indian war. The british won and kept canada, the great lakes country, the ohio River valley, and florida. They successfully drove out the French from north America. French also lost all colonies in North America. -
Sugar Act
Parliament passes a sugar and molasses act which states colonial merchants were required to pay an extra 6 pence per gallon on imported molasses. This hurt the British West Indies market in molasses and sugar and the market for rum, which the colonies had been producing in quantity with the cheaper French molasses. -
Stamp Act
This act required that all colonists pay a tax on almost all printed materials. Printed materials such as newspapers, books, court documents, contracts,and land deeds. -
Declaratory Act
This act repealed the stamp act but asserted Parliament's right to rule the colonies as it saw fit. -
Townshed Acts
Acts imposed on duties on glass, led, paper, and tea imported into the colonies and created a board of customs commissioners to enforce customs laws that do not need to be accused of not having a trial by jury. -
Boston Massacre
A group of British soldiers came to support a watchman who was being attacked by a snowballing crowd thst shot out multiple shots killing 5 colonist and wounding others. This was arisen from ongoing tension between the Amercian colonies. -
Tea Act
This act was not done to raise revenue or pose new taxes in the American colonies. But it was to help the British East India Company from economic struggles due to tea. They shipped tea to the American colonies and sold it for a bargain price. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists refused to buy cheaper tea. The wealthy colonists who smuggled tea were hurting financially due to the East india Company directly selling tea to the colonies. The "Sons of Liberty" decided to solve this problem themselves. So they dressed as Indians, boarded three British ships carrying tea, and dumped the tea into the harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts
King George III punished the colonists for dumping tea into the harbor. The Quakers petitioned him to end the acts but he forced to colonies to subdue to the English Laws. The intolerable Acts included The Boston Pill Port, The Quartering Acts, The Administration of Justice, Massachusetts Gov't Act and The Quebec Act. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
The first military engagements of the American Revolution made of two battles where British troops were sent to capture John Hancck and Samuel Adams who were already aware of this attack. The minutemen who were Americans ready to fight were killed in large amounts by the British who charged with bayonets. The British then find out that Hancock and Adams escape so they go to Concord for bullets where they were forced to retreat from more minutemen who ambushed them. British loss 100+ to colonists
